Strange Pictures

Wow, this book was so good. There were so many plot developments and interconnections throughout the entirety of it, that it made me keep wanting to read. I have been having a really hard time getting back into reading and this was one of the first books that I needed to finish when I got to a certain point. I am actually at my friend's house in AZ right now (if you are reading this Nile, hi!) and I finished the rest of the book outside while it was storming outside. Ok spoilers from now on...Naomi?? Jeeeeez, now that is a complex character. I had to draw out a whole diagram this morning just to lay out all the characters and visually see how they are all involved with each other. Naomi killed four people throughout the whole book. The first being her mother when she was a young girl. Then she killed her daughter-in-law aka the girl who had a crush on her husband. Then she killed Iwata the reporter who was catching on to everything and finally Taka..omg I forgot his name. I will call him T. This lady was so busy. She almost killed the other reporter too! She sort of did cause the death of her own son in a way as well. I love how the book starts out and the timeline of how everything was presented. It was super clever, and I haven't read a book with so many picture references in a long time! It wasn't quite a picture book, however, there are more pictures than I thought there would be when I first picked it up. I believe this was one of the books I grabbed on my Powell's Books haul while I was in Portland. Uketsu is such an interesting character, and I watched a few of his videos on YouTube. The dude definitely has a personality!